The year was 1997. ACES: The Society for Editing — formerly known as the American Copy Editors Society — was founded as a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting excellence in copy editing.

In this capstone course you will demonstrate the knowledge and skills you have acquired while completing the Editing Certificate. You will perform a structural edit, stylistic edit, copy edit, and ...

Is editing the career for you? Through course reading, exercises, and assignments, we will introduce you to the roles and responsibilities of editors, as well as the knowledge and skills editors need ...

Most professional in-house or freelance copy editors have had some formal schooling in copy editing. It is a learned skill to a point, but, as far as I’m concerned, you must have an affinity for words ...

The Role: Copy editors are tasked with fixing grammar, spelling or word usage errors in written text. Copy editors typically occupy one link in an editing chain that includes substantive editing, ...

Reading in Thursday’s post that few journalism programs offer much training in editing, Sean Smyth asked, “What is the best training to be an editor?” There are things you can do to prepare yourself ...